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Fancy Basket

Artist Mary Adams (Kawennatakie)? (Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk), 1917 - 1999)

DateEarly 20th C.

MediumFiber, wood, Black ash splints, sweetgrass

Dimensions5 1/2” H (with loop) x 7” Diameter

Credit LineMuseum Purchase; Funded by Timothy Sullivan ’89

Object numberNA2008.06.SUL

DescriptionFancy basket with lid. Bottom made from very fine splints and sweetgrass with a ring of splint twists at outer edge. Sides and lid have slightly larger splints with rows of braided sweetgrass and twisted splints. At very top is sweetgrass, a row of “porcupine” twists and coils of large twists forming a handle.

ClassificationsBasketry

Collections

Longyear Museum of Anthropology Collections

Exhibitions

Imagining Indigeneity in a Global Future

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